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Medical specialists are concerned about the progression of colorectal cancer in Canada. That's why the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology has issued new guidelines for earlier screening.
If this type of cancer, the second largest in the country, appears in the majority of cases after 60 years, there seems to be a slight increase in the incidence of the disease in the youngest, according to a surgeon who dedicates 80% of his practice in the treatment of colorectal cancer.
"All people in Quebec who are 50 years old should be screened, that is to say [en réalisant] a search for occult blood in the stool. And this should be initiated by a family doctor, "said Dr. Gilles Jobin, a gastroenterologist at Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital.
People whose father, mother, brother or sister has been diagnosed with colorectal cancer should be screened between the ages of 40 and 50 years. If two members of the direct family have been affected, screening must be done at the age of 40. In addition, screening should be done 10 years earlier than the age at which the loved one was diagnosed.
People whose parents have been touched by colorectal cancer are twice as likely as the general population to develop this type of cancer.
In Quebec, about 6,800 people have been diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2017. More than 1,500 Quebeckers have died of the disease.
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